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Today in Creepy Alien News: New Trailer for Monsters; Hustler’s Avatar Porn.

Via Cinema Blend: a new trailer for Gareth Edwards’ Monsters, a low-budget flick that has some solid buzz but also looks a whole lot like District 9‘s excitable little brother. (I’m guessing the whole “aliens in Mexico thing” mightโ€”just mightโ€”lead to some social commentary.) I’m looking forward to it because hey, giant monsters, but here’s […]

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Where Do You Pee?

The Society Pages has a long and intermittently interesting post about the difference in male and female bathroom signage, with plenty of examples from around the world. The idea is that an easily identifiable symbol to determine the sex has its basis in long-established roles of inequality: Washroom signs are very telling of the way […]

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Meet The Bubbleator

“Being Mormon, I can’t look at porn or nudity,” writes some Mormon dude who can’t look at porn or nudity. “So I have to get creative. That’s why I invented ‘bubbling.’ Hard to explain so just scroll down.” And here’s what you’ll find when you scroll down: More—and more disturbing—examples of “bubbling” (what appear to […]

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Here Is What a Wildly Sucessful Kickstarter Project Looks Like: Punk Mathematics

Local comedian/math teacher/Math for Primates podcaster Tom Henderson is raising money to write a book called Punk Mathematics, based on the principles laid out in an interview with Technocult: 1) People use the average Joe’s poor mathematics as a way to control, exploit, and numerically fuck him over. 2) Mathematics is the subject in which, […]

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